Burke Allen's Big Time Talker Podcast — by SpeakerMatch

Sydney Ross Singer is a medical anthropologist, researcher and author of several groundbreaking books on culture and disease.  As Director of Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease, he has done research on the health problems caused by the way people sleep and by the way people dress and other critical information than can help people fight the COVID-19 pandemic. It is known that COVID-19...

"It’s Critically Important That We Maintain Our Healthcare Workers", says Rear Admiral (ret.) James M. Galloway, MD, a former assistant U.S. Surgeon General, a cardiovascular medical doctor and a public health expert. As the former Director of the Office of Health System Collaboration for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, integrating clinical care and public health at a national leve...

Faith; it's a much-debated topic in tough times. Many people might ask how could a loving, merciful God bring a pandemic down on his people?  We'll have a discussion with Pastor Sean Roberds to get his take on how faith, or a lack of faith, plays into many people's methods of coping with stressful times like these.  And, how social distancing has affected the way he conducts services for his paris...

Sports betting expert and sports broacaster Brad Taylor joins us today from Lexington, KY. After spending over two decades in Atlanta, Brad moved to Lexington, KY to take care of elderly parents. He was recently hired by ESPN Radio in Lexington in early March after years of trying to get an on-ir spot on radio and then coronavirus hit, meaning no sports...and no sports to talk about on the radio!...

Von Lewis is perhaps best known for playing Bobby Rydell in the Oscar-winning film "Green Book". He's also appeared as country music superstar Ray Price in "I Saw The Light" and on stages from Atlantic City to Hollywood performing some of the biggest hits from the Great American Songbook. And, Von is just part of the talent package in the Lewis household; he often performs alongside his lovely and...

Our guest today, Jack Owens is a long time FBI field agent and former FBI SWAT team member. He’s busted bad guys, was involved in the arrest of the Atlanta child serial killer in the late 70’s and the Atlanta Olympic bombing investigation.  His son currently serves in the bureau in Washington DC, and Jack writes novels about serial killers (his “Pock” series) and his time in the FBI (“Don’t Shoot…...

Join host Burke Allen as he talks with NFL veteran Alex Molden about how to handle life with no sports in the era of isolation.  Alex was a first-round draft pick out of college who played defensive back between 1996 and 2004 for the New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers and Detroit Lions.  Molden's college career at the University of Oregon including a trip to the Rose Bowl. In 1992 he had 55 ta...

Kevin Miller, the best-selling author of HEART OF STEEL, is certain he and other family members contracted COVID-19 before it was announced in the U.S. We'll ask him what makes him so sure, what his symptoms were, and how writing is helping him get through this time of lockdown and social distancing in his Southern California home. Check out www.heartofsteelbook.com and don't miss this show!  

One of the first casualties of the pandemic is the music and entertainment industry; concerts and events are canceled for the foreseeable future, putting tens of thousands of artists and behind-the-scenes music pros immediately out of work. What's the future hold for the music and event business? The Big Time Talker Podcast asks Tom Callahan, who for the past three decades has served as a Music Bu...

Uncertainty of future, quarantined from others with limited living space for months, job loss/no income despite bills to pay, struggling to survive, scared, no college graduation for being a senior in college, robbed of college experiences, no closure, anxiety, many unknowns...Does this sound familiar? Guest on Big Time Talker podcast is a national award-winning professional speaker, Darcy L. Keit...

Getting through this crisis will require more than just good hygiene and social distancing. We need to be just as smart and proactive about our mental health. Our guest on Big Time Talker podcast is Terry Connell, a licensed acupuncturist, yoga instructor and author living in Washington, D.C. who believes acupuncture is a great way to stay healthy. It is effective in treating symptoms by inhibitin...

Our old friend Dr. Will joins us for the Big Talker Podcast!  A Licensed Psychologist, Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and Master Hypnotist, Dr. William Horton helps us understand how to adjust to this new normal during the pandemic, stay positive and not stress. This Big Time Talker Podcast guest has useful insights on things you can do now to raise your natural anti-viral level and why sel...

Richard V. Battle is a business consultant, speaker and the author of six books including his latest award-winning Conquering Life’s Course-Common Sense In Chaotic Times. Not immune to personal challenges, Richard has survived an apartment fire that his neighbor died, experienced financial ruin with the Texas real estate collapse in the 1980’s, divorce, experienced two heart procedures, survived c...

Dreama Denver is our guest today on the Big Talker Podcast to talk all things Gilligan, plus Dobie Gillis and her new children's book "Four Bears In A Box"!  Visit Dreama online at www.bobdenver.com. 

Molecular Geneticist turned FEAR Strategist, Author, TEDx/International Speaker Robin Joy Meyers helps us understand the actual, real science of fear, which couldn't be more timely as we all deal with the coronavirus pandemic Robin specializes in science-based strategies and techniques for self-awareness, mindset, leadership, balance/boundaries and what she calls the "positive power of fear." We'l...

The book Einstein's Compass and the fictional adventures of it's lead character, a young Albert Einstein, has often been compared to another teenaged science whiz, Harry Potter! Listen as host Burke Allen talks with Einstien author Grace Allison Blair about her award winning Young Adult novel, and why March 14 (observed as ‘Pi Day’ celebrating the popular and well-known mathematical constant ‘pi’)...

Intimate and deeply moving, WHERE IS NANCY? (see the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62p9Ik1ceOQ), the new documentary feature from acclaimed indie filmmaker Thiago Dadalt and Producer Dru Miller, will have it's world premiere at the Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival Sunday, March 8th at 5:00 p.m., at the Hammer Theatre in San Jose, California.  The heartache begins when Nancy P...

Phoenix, Oregon is a touching new film comedy of midlife reinvention and the redeeming power of friendship along with pizza, bowling, and comic book art.  Defying their shared murky midlife haze, Bobby, a bartender and aspiring graphic novelist played by James Le Gros (Drugstore Cowboy, Living In Oblivion and co-star of the new Amazon Prime Al Pacino series Hunters) and his best friend, chef Carlo...

Richard Battle, speaker, advisor and award-winning author of  Conquering Life’s Course and several other well received books will be joining Burke Allen, host of BlogTalk Radio tomorrow, January 15 at 10:30 am ET for an inspiring conversation on how to overcome grief. Battle and his wife lost their 9-month-old son suddenly and unexpectedly, and Richard also experienced a death in his family on Chr...

How would you feel if you woke up one morning to learn the name you've used all your life is NOT your real name? And, when you find out why, it leads to you uncovering your direct connection to an infamous murder mystery in a small midwestern town in the 1920's, the results of which are still reverberating today. Heart of Steel is an incredible true story that begins when Air Force veteran Kevin M...

Join host Burke Allen and his special guest Jack Owens, retired FBI agent and SWAT team leader and author. Jack shares his thoughts and considerable insight from 30 years with the bureau on gun ownership, assault weapons bans, mental health of shooters and how the FBI interacts with local law enforcement to try to keep us safe. Interestingly, in his FBI career spanning over three decades, Jack nev...

Join host Burke Allen and his special guest Dr. Stephen Cook from Virginia Theological seminary. The noted author and speaker will share his thoughts on the "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric that follows incidents of tragic gun violence in the wake of deadly shootings in El Paso and Dayton, what the Bible says about mental illness, and how a loving God could permit incidents like this to happen.  It...

Former Assistant Chief US Senate Watergate Committee counsel David Dorsen moves away from his scholarly non-fiction works to delve into a contemporary and witty fictional account of President Donald J Trump in his new novel Moses v Trump.  Moses v Trump opens with a New York federal judge mourning the death of his wife and wondering what direction his life will turn. That’s when the libel case (Mo...

AUGIE'S WAR is an outrageously funny, but deadly serious story of growing up and coming of age as the son of Italian American immigrants in small town America...and then serving in the Vietnam war.   Young soldier Augie Cumpton must find a way to survive his deployment to Vietnam. So he escapes the horror and insanity of war by retreating to his safe haven; a cerebral sanctuary where he can reflec...

Award winning author Prestell Askia has dedicated a quarter century to finding solutions for committed couples with challenges in their relationships. Her advice, stemming from interviews with some 500 couples, is not for those teetering on the edge of divorce. She is not a therapist, a psychologist or a psychiatrist. She is the "Love Doctor". In her book. she takes the reader through the pieces o...